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Violence and family: binding possibilities and forms of subjectivity

This article presents achieved studies from a family's psychoanalytic psychotherapy whose main articulator element of its history is the violence. Modern man, in his relentless pursuit of happiness, finds himself unable to be assured of full satisfaction of their desires, installing a paradox. This analysis allowed to discover a different point of view about the contemporary subject and his strategies for dealing with this helplessness issue. The family presented in this study illustrates the way how the link is established and maintained through an unconscious agreement, which is imposed or mutually concluded. It is a collusion that enables continued investments and benefits related to subsistence of the narcissistic contract. Subjects, which are imbued with the violent relationship, portray that the subject is cast helpless to try to avoid facing the fundamental violence. That implies to the subject try to destroy the other as the alternative to assert their own singularity and relieving their pulsional tensions.

violence; bond; subjectivity


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